Sea chub | |
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Girella fimbriata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: |
Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887 [1] |
Subfamilies | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Scorpididae |
The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, [2] [3] are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters. [4]
The four subfamilies with 12 genera in this family are:
Some authorities raise the subfamilies to full family status as the families Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Microacanthidae and Scorpididae and do not support the monophyly of the Kyphosidae as outlined above. [4]
Sea chub | |
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Girella fimbriata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: |
Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887 [1] |
Subfamilies | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Scorpididae |
The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, [2] [3] are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters. [4]
The four subfamilies with 12 genera in this family are:
Some authorities raise the subfamilies to full family status as the families Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Microacanthidae and Scorpididae and do not support the monophyly of the Kyphosidae as outlined above. [4]